Process of hardening feet and legs of fowls.



TENT UFFIQE.

FRANK JESSEE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PROCESS OF HARDENING FEET AND LEGS OF FOWLS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Jnssnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Processes of Hardening Feet and Legs of Fowls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to the method of treating the feet and legs offowls and like animals so as to render saidfeet and legs hard to such adegree as will enable them to be handled in the manner common to hard orsolid substances; that is, to be sawed, split, shaved, turned, planed,polished, soldered painted, etc.

In carrying my invention into effect, I take any number of feet and legsof slaughtered fowls, and after thoroughly cleansing the same by washingwith soap and water sufliciently to clean all accumulated dirt or otherextraneous matter from the surface thereof, I immerse them in a solutionformed of the following proportions: To one gallon of lukewarm water, ofthe temperature of 80 F ah., I add one gill of vinegar and one gill ofcoal oil. The feet and legs so immersed are then placed where changes intemperature will not affect them, and kept intact in such place for aperiod of fortyeight hours more or less. After this treatment the saidsubstances may be removed from the solution when it will be found thatall decaying particles in said substances Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1910.

Application filed May 11, 1909. Serial No. 495,211.

have become solidified, and hardened, after which they are exposed tothe atmosphere at a temperature of about 70 or 80 F ah., for abouttwenty-four hours. They may be then treated like any metal-likesubstance by sawing, splitting, cutting, shaving, painting andpolishing; and will receive solder for attachment to any other likesubstance. They may thus be made into feet for tables, stools, ottomansand the like. They may serve as hooks for clothes, pictures and thelike, and may be made into ornamental bric-a-brac of various designs.

Having thus described my invention, What I desire to claim and secure byLetters Patent is,

The method of hardening the feet and legs of fowls, which consists inimmersing them for forty-eight hours, more or less, in a solutioncomposed of coal oil, vinegar and water, the latter of the temperatureof 80 Fah., all mixed in the proportions specified after which saidsubstances are dried by exposure to an atmosphere of 7 0 or 80 Fah. fortwenty-four hours, more or less, as may be necessary, in the mannersubstantially described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK JESSEE.

Witnesses A. E. T. DRAPER, I MARY CURTIS.

